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Nick
Of Time
Nick of Time is the watershed moment
in Bonnie Raitt's recording career, the sound of a survivor finding new
focus and purpose in her art after nearly 20 years of generally superb,
commercially underachieving recordings. An exquisite interpretive singer
and formidable guitarist who'd long ago honed her bluesy chops, Raitt raised
the stakes by mixing the usual gourmet spread of smart cover choices with
her own candid songs--and she knocked one over the fence with the opening
track, the album's title song and a moving confession of a boomer's anxieties
about age, death, and the impermanence of love. "Nick of Time" catapulted
a feisty rock tomboy into a new station that made her as admired by female
fans as the stage door johnnies who'd long loved her rock technique, and
she covered the bet with other outside songs from John Hiatt ("Thing Called
Love"), Bonnie Hayes ("Love Letter," "Have a Heart"), and Jerry L. Williams
("Real Man") that resonated with her persona as a tough, smart, but ultimately
tender woman. --Sam Sutherland |
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Silver
Lining
The latest in a series of highly
polished albums of good-natured boogie, blues, & singer-songwriter
fare, Bonnie Raitt's Silver Lining won't disappoint the
initiated. Recorded with her highly seasoned road band and coproduced (again)
by the ubiquitous Mitchell Froom and Tchad Blake, this is a high quality
product. --Rob Stewart |
The
Bonnie Raitt Collection
When Bonnie Raitt collected four
Grammies for her 1989 multiplatinum breakthrough Nick of Time, it offered
sweet justification for fans that had followed her through years of great
recordings but plenty of hard luck in terms of commercial success. The
Bonnie Raitt Collection shows why those fans were right all along. From
the early blues-mama stylings of "Give It Up or Let Me Go" and "Love Me
Like a Man" to the increased pop sophistication she brought to songs like
her funky reworking of Del Shannon's "Runaway" and Bryan Adams's straight-ahead
rocker "No Way to Treat a Lady," the set offers a worthwhile sampling of
the decade and a half she spent recording for the Warner Bros. label.
--Daniel Durchholz |
Nine
Lives [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED]
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Luck
Of The Draw
Luck Of The Draw mirrors an even
fiercer determination to make music as if her life depended on it. Again
teamed with producer Don Was, Raitt surpasses herself with her best album
to date: her wonderfully lush, blues-rimmed voice and sinuous slide guitar
wrap themselves around a dozen potent songs culled from a typically shrewd
mix of writers including Paul Brady, John Hiatt, Bonnie Hayes, Shirley
Eikhard, and Billy Vera, and Raitt herself turns in her most generous batch
of originals yet. --Sam Sutherland |
Longing
in Their Hearts
Like its two multiplatinum predecessors,
Longing in Their Hearts was produced by Don Was (Raitt is listed as coproducer
on the last two) and features the funky rhythm section of ex-Neville Brothers
bassist Hutch Hutchinson and ex-Beach Boys drummer Ricky Fataar. As before,
Was provides a sympathetic blend of roots rock and radio-ready L.A. pop-rock
for Raitt's always-lustrous voice. --G.Himes |
Fundamental
Bonnie Raitt's marvelous voice,
saucy grooves, and singing slide guitar are this album's fundamentals.
But these 11 love songs are more than a back-to-basics exercise. |
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